Motivational Quotes

Life

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

- Wise, Alfonso The

Best Quotes about Life

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.